Tag: turbidity current

Callan Bentley over at Mountain Beltway just posted about Aden Crater, and I though i would share a few photos from Kilbourne Hole, a nearby maar volcanic crater. It's only about 15 miles from my childhood home, and I went there quite a bit in high school, both for geology and just to get out …

For a while now, the most popular page on my site has been this one, a photo of a Halloween pumpkin I carved to look like the Bouma sequence. It is the most popular because people are looking for information about the Bouma sequence, so it is time to do a real post on the …

This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time - thanks to Dave Petley for the link. This event occurred in Cabo San Lucas, on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. I imagine that these divers were reef-diving (as evidenced by the angelfish in the first few seconds of the …